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Frank McCormick fmccormick at videotron.ca
Tue Nov 25 20:16:16 UTC 2008


Mark Haney wrote:
> Allan White wrote:
>> How do I format a floppy disk in Ubuntu 8.10
>>
>> Why does not my music CD automatically play when I put it in the drive.
>>
>> Please can I have any answers in plain language use the gui interface,
>> I do not understand the terminal and do not want to learn.
>>
> 
> AFAIK, you are out of luck with the first one.  The only way I know to 
> format a floppy is from the command line.  There may be a GUI option, 
> but I"m not aware of one, only because I've never needed to use one.


  How about gfloppy ?

> 
> I can't understand why you'd want to use a *nix OS and not want to learn 
> command line.  It's almost impossible to NOT learn command line in Linux.
> 
> 
> 

  The ONLY command line app I use is midnight commander because I can
get around in it MUCH faster than in Nautilus.







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